"I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'"

"I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"It's such a happiness when good people get together."

"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."