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.

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.