"'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so."

"Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclos…"

"I live from day to day, and content myself with having enough to meet my present and ordinary needs; for the extraord…"

"A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment."

"Je veux qu'on me voit en ma façon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans étude et artifice; car c'est moi que je peins…"

"Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire."

"Like rowers, who advance backward."

"Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaisé d'y fonder jugement …"

"Un peu de chaque chose, et rien du tout, a la française."

"All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate."