A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Information upon points of practical politics.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Great countries are those that produce great people.