“Gold makes the ugly beautiful.”
“Books and marriage go ill together.”
“Love is often the fruit of marriage.”
“Grammar, which can govern even Kings.”
“Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!”
“Long is the road from conception to completion.”
“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”
“We always speak well when we manage to be understood.”
“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
“He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.”
“Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.”
“There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.”
“We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.”
“People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.”
“It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.”
“I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.”
“It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.”
“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.”
“Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.”
“One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.”
“The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.”
“There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.”