The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

The expected always happens

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

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

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Departure should be sudden.