Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.