Don't worry about things you cannot alter

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.