Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.