A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

Women of the world crave excitement.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.