The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
There is no diplomacy like silence.
Duty cannot exist without faith
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.