Great countries are those that produce great people.

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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