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

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Methods are the masters of masters.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Nothing succeeds so well as success.