Only small minds want always to be right.

First feelings are always the most natural.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

I see no point in reading.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.