“Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.”

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

We are easily duped by those we love.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

You’ve got to make haste while it’s still light of day.

Haste is a poor counselor.

My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Too great haste leads us to error.