Difficulties melt away under tact.
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
An obedient wife commands her husband.
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
There is no wisdom like frankness.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Quit the world, and the world forgets you.
All must respect those who respect themselves.
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
We are taught words, not ideas.
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.
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