The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

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.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.