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

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

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

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

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

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.

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