Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.