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

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

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

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

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