No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

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.

Don't breathe to survive

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

Theres heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now.

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

God plans all perfect combinations.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me.