Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.