Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.