As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

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.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.