No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

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.

It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.