Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.
Riches seldom make their owners rich.
Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.
You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.
Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.
If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.
In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.
Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.