Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.