At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.