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

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

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

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?