What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
A witty saying proves nothing.
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.