I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.