It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!