A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
With words we govern men.
Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.
Be thine own privy counsellor.