Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.