You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.