There is no diplomacy like silence.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.