A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money

Life is not so important as the duties of life

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul