The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

[Marriage] can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Man, in good earnest, is a marvelous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

I have never seen greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.