I have only read one book in my life and that is "White Fang." It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another."

"To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease."

"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead."

"I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."

Surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory.