Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.