Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

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.