I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.