It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.