 I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. |
| The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. |
| Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. |
| The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. |
| Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. |
| A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. |
| Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. |
| What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. |
| Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. |
| To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. |
| If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. |
| She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. |
| Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. |
| Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. |
| War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. |
| Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. |
| The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. |
| Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. |
| Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. |
| Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. |
