To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.