A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.
All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.
A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.