Association with women is the basis of good manners.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

To a valet no man is a hero.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.