“Evil tongues never want a whet.”

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Plain as a pike-staff.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances.

Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist?

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Never insult anyone by accident.

I try to be green as much as I can and it’s hard. I feel like I’m never doing enough.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.