All hate him because he commands; and all seek him because he can serve or destroy them.

He does not give himself up to any one, but negotiates with each: he lays down calmly on the tumultuous element of this assembly, the basis of the reformed constitution: legislation, finance, diplomacy, war, religion, political economy, balances of power, every question he approaches and solves, not as an Utopian, but as a politician.

The solution he gives is always the precise mean between the theoretical and the practical.

He places reason on a level with manners, and the institutions of the land in consonance with its habits.

He desires a throne to support the democracy, liberty in the chambers, and in the will of the nation, one and irresistible in the government.