Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.