“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.”

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

When in doubt, disclose.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

I think and that is all that I am.