Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

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

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

We must be doing something to be happy.