The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.