We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.