The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.