The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.