For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.