Money is economic power.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.