"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."

"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

"Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood."

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."

"I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife."

"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly."

"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life."

"Nature made him, and then broke the mold."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."