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.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.