"Never complain and never explain."

"The greatest secret of success in life is to be ready when your opportunity comes."

"I deny that a people can govern itself. Self-government is a contradiction in terms. Whatever form a government assumes, power must be exercised by a minority of numbers."

"There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it."

"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."