"I am a very melancholy man, but I love to laugh."

"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure."

"My Princess of Parallelograms" - "Her proceedings are quite rectangular, or rather we are two parallel lines prolonged to infinity side by side but never to meet."

"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 a great contempt for the world, and I am not ashamed to own it."