The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Extra interest signifies extra risk.

I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.