Books and marriage go ill together.
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Long is the road from conception to completion.
Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.