Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.