An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.