The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.