A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

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.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.