It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.