Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

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

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

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

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all