One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.