Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.