“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.”

“The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.”

“So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we...”

“I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.”