A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

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.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Ignorance never settles a question.