I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.
People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
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.
Never complain and never explain.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.