While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
No author is a man of genius to his publisher.
Every woman is the gift of a world to me.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.