Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Nought endures but change.