Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.