» Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
» No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
» The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
» Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
» Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
» No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
» Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
» The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
» The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
» The look of a king is itself a deed.