Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

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.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.