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

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

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.

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.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

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