There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

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.

Better a live dog than a dead lion.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

The fans, and now most of the crowd, are interested in this event.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.