"I have always felt that anyone who wanted an election so much they would use those means did not have the character that I really admired in public life."

"If life were always easy it would be boring."

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: ‘No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.’"

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."