A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.