Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

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

A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.

Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!