A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.