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

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

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

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.