The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.