There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.