"'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."

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

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

"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."

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

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