The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

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

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Difficulties melt away under tact.