It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.