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

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

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.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

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

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

It is not an event; it is a piece of news.