Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

The contact of two epidermises.