Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
Youth is the only thing worth having.