Too great haste leads us to error.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

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.