With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

Great men have great dogs.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.