With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.