Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.