The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.