The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.