I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.