The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

All religions have been made by men.