"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

"An English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre."

"Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns."

"I deny that a people can govern itself. Self-government is a contradiction in terms. Whatever form a government assumes, power must be exercised by a minority of numbers."

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."