Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.