I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

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

A man's fate is his own temper.