We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

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

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

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