Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

Travel teaches toleration.

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

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.