Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

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

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.