And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Only the fools are certain and assured.