The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!