The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.