The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.