[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

Oh, that peace may come.

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.