The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

All my successes have been built on my failures.