Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

European lotteries are the tax on fools.

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.