In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'

Your wits make others witty.

Your wit makes others witty.