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

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.

Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

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

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

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.