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

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

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.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

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