"I have always been of opinion that the best way to make a man a good soldier is to make him a good citizen."

"I have been in love with a great many women, and I have found them all equally charming and equally faithless."

"I am a very proud man, and I have a great contempt for those who are not."

"I have a great contempt for public opinion, and I always have."

"I have a great contempt for all cant, whether religious, political, or moral."