I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.