The first blow is half the battle.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.