There is moderation even in excess.
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
The unfortunate are always egotistical.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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.