Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.