Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient..

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever..

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow..

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell.".

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other..

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'.

We moralize among ruins..

Adventures are to the adventurous..

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinn….

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences….

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything..

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity..

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations..

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition..

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility..

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades;….

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits..

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours..

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it ….

The canter is a cure for every evil..