(14 quotes found)
“Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.”
John Randolph
“That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money”
“I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.”
“A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue”
“Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul”
“I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat”
“Life is not so important as the duties of life”
“Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour”
“The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.”
“We all know our duty better than we discharge it.”
