Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Change is constant in a progressive country.