A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

Children remind us that we're all children.

A picture is poem without words.

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

New blood keeps us alive.

Something of calumny always sticks.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.