Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.