Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Observe, observe perpetually.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.