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

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.