I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.
Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.