One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
Vision is seeing the invisible.
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.