He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Security will produce danger.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Change is not made without inconvenience.