No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.