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

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.