A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

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

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth

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.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.