Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.