A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

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.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

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.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.