If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.