You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.