High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.