To marry a fool is to be no fool.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.