“She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the wa…” — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.