Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

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

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.