Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
Never say more than is necessary.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.