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

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

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

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

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.

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.