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

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

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

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