There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Slander is the balm of malignity.