"Thiers was the savage, limited type of bourgeois who steeps himself in blood without flinching."

"You should never hand over a country to one man, whoever the man, whatever the circumstances."

"It [a republic] is the form of government which divides us the least."

"He was...an intellectual lightweight. This is apparent in his voluminous histories of the Revolution, Consulate and E…"

"What do you expect me to think of Thiers? There's no one who detested me more... Thiers was a man who firmly abstaine…"

"It fell to the liberal statesman, academician, and historian Adolphe Thiers to forge this broader synthesis in his Hi…"

"Der König herrscht, aber er regiert nicht."

"Wer Dankbarkeit fordert, verdient keine."

""Dass es uns lange gut geht, stösst gegen die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung. Wir werden gar nicht geboren zum Glück. Da…"

"Der Maler und der Beschauer vollenden zusammen ein Bild. Es ist ein Unterschied zwischen vollenden und fertig machen."