She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

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

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

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