When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.