"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children."

"Never complain and never explain."

"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."

"I am a gentleman. I live in a world of gentlemen."

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."