In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.