A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.
Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!