Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.