Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

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

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

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.