The unfortunate are always egotistical.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.