Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
I say that justice is truth in action.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Justice is truth in action.
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 dinner.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.