When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

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

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

I say that justice is truth in action.

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