The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.