To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.