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

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

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

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.

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

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

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