A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

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

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

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

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

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