Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

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.