Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

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.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?