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

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

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

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

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

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