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

Methods are the masters of masters.

In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

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.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.