Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

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.