We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

Tis best to build no castles in the air.

There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.