We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.