Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

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

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.