You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.