Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.