We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

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.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

You can't be happy, you was prank again and again and you was just in a trap nothing else. That wasn't him, even this and that guy. You just killed the witnesses and few cops!

Don't get mad get even.

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.