I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Do nothing twice over.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.