We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.