Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.