Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!