I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

I loved him for himself alone.