Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

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.

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.