Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.