The canter is a cure for every evil.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

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

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.