The eyes, even through his spectacles, flash with intelligence, and the expression of his face varies with every sentiment he utters.

Thiers is a man to effect a revolution, and Mignet would be the historian to narrate it.
There is something very interesting in the unbroken friendship of these two men of genius, and its constancy elevates both in my estimation.
They are not more unlike than are their respective works, both of which, though so dissimilar, are admirable in their way.

The mobility and extreme excitability of the French, render such men as Monsieur Thiers extremely dangerous to monarchical power.

His genius, his eloquence, and his boldness, furnish him with the means of exciting the enthusiasm of his countrymen as surely as a torch applied to gunpowder produces an explosion.

In England these qualities, however elevated, would fail to produce similar results; for enthusiasm is there little known, and, when it comes forth, satisfies itself with a brief manifestation, and swiftly resigns itself to the prudent jurisdiction of reason.