[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.
Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.