It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.