The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.