A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

Drama - what literature does at night.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.