Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.