There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.