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

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

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

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.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Methods are the masters of masters.