Your wit makes others witty.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.