He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?