Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.