In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.