My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws

Once mention the word independence, or that of Italy, and he ( Giuseppe Garibaldi) becomes a volcano in eruption

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.