Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.