"'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…"

"Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti ."

"Every rich man is avaricious, in my opinion."

"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."

"It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying."

"Like rowers, who advance backward."

"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."