When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being. - Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.