Books and marriage go ill together.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.