Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.