He is as uncontrollable and crabby as one can imagine. Not to be understood, because neither his mother nor his father is like that. - Leopold I of Belgium

Belgium is a boiler that needs valves.

But Palmerston likes to put his foot on their necks! Now, no statesman must triumph over an enemy that is not quite dead, because people forget a real loss, a real misfortune, but they won’t forget an insult. Napoleon made great mistakes that way; he hated Prussia, insulted it on all occasions, but still left it alive. The consequence was that in 1813 they rose to a man in Prussia, even children and women took arms, because they had been treated with contempt and insulted.

I am saddened by the case of Constantinople, this journey was so well served to you, and you have spoiled it with a childishness.