Female friendships are of rapid growth.

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

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

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.