If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.