Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Where words cease, there music begins.