People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

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

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.