You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.