We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.