It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.