An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

I do not teach. I relate.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.