For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.