Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Diplomacy is living in state.