Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.