Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.