Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny