As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.