On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

I never speak in silence.

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

I am a big believer in love. Love for me is what got me through.

I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.