He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.