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

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.

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

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

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

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.