A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

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.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.