“It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.”

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Things are only worth what you make them worth.

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

The smallest errors are always the best.

Books and marriage go ill together.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.