For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.