The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.