Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Who set the standard for us to live by? It is the traditions of the dead that will forever weigh upon the presence of the living.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt