There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

History is but a confused heap of facts.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.