What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it.

We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

Die my dear Doctor? That's the last thing I shall do!