The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

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.

Embrace all people with love, mercy and faith.

Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers.

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.

I can't shove the dark out of my way.

Adequate planning will rescue you from the shame of tomorrow

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.