My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

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

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.