Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

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

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.