Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Irony is wasted on the stupid
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.