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

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

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.