A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality...
Ignorance never settles a question.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Every woman should marry - and no man.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.