The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

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.

Every day something inside us dies because we do not have the courage to follow our dreams

As soon as you find the key to success somebody always changes the lock.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.