The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Money is economic power.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.