Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

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

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.