"I am not a democrat, but I am not an autocrat either."

"I grant that I am full of prejudices; I sucked them in with my mother's milk, and I cannot possibly argue them away."

"With a gentleman, I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud, I try to be a fraud and a half."

"I am more afraid of the German professors than of the French army."

"People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt."