Jesting Is Often Only Indigence Of Intellect.

There Is Nothing Men Are So Anxious To Keep, And Yet Are So Careless About, As Life.

All Confidence Placed In Another Is Dangerous If It Is Not Perfect, For On Almost All Occasions We Ought To Tell Everything Or To Conceal Everything. We Have Already Told Too Much Of Our Secret, If One Single Circumstance Is To Be Kept Back.

A Man Of The World Must Seem To Be What He Wishes To Be Thought.

We Can Recognize The Dawn And The Decline Of Love By The Uneasiness We Feel When Alone Together.

A Pious Man Is One Who Would Be An Atheist If The King Were.