We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.