Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.