England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.