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.
No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Silence is the mother of truth.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.