The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

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

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

Error is ever talkative.