She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.