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

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.

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.

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

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

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.