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...
Damn your principles! Stick to your party!
Ignorance never settles a question.
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.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Worry is 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.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for 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.
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.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Every woman should marry - and no man.
For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.