If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

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.

He who leaves the game wins it.

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

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.