A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Haste is always ungraceful.