Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.