Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

False modesty is the most decent of all deceptions.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Education must have two foundations – morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn’t marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins...

Woman’s weakness, not man’s merit, oftenest gains the suitor’s victory.