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

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

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.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

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