An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

Just close your eyes—and think of England.

Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.