"I have a great deal of the child in me, and that is why I love children."

"Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"It is a very remarkable thing, that the very people who are most anxious to get into society are the very people who are least fitted for it."

"He was a man of the world, in the worst sense of the term."

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if…"