He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.