It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

Many a truth is told in jest.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

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