Let the path be open to talent.
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
History is written by the winners.
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.