My experience is that one's pleasures don't bear thinking about.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language.

For now you have only Mahomet and his dupes, and the Maid and her dupes; but what will it be when every girl thinks herself a Joan and every man a Mahomet?

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.