To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.