If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.