When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.