Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

One cannot govern with 'buts'.