. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions

The heart has no wrinkles

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.