I believe absence is a great element of charm.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

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

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.