From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.