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.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Travel teaches toleration.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Beauty can inspire miracles.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

Life is to short to be small.