When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

Every empire eventually falls.

What I love is finding immersive jobs. I've always wanted a challenge.

Too much thinking is a bad thing sometimes.

Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?