"In morality, I prefer Confucius to the ten Commandments and Socrates to St. Paul."

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

"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."

"I never was much of a believer in human perfectibility."

"The only thing that consoles me for the follies of mankind is the contemplation of their virtues."