A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

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

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

Death pays all debts.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.