One can say everything best over a meal.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.