Where the carcass is, there are the vultures gathered together.
The evils of gambling are only slightly less than the evils caused by drink.
The curse of a politician’s life: He has to bow to the country’s feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.
Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.
Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same.
Life is only one of the Great Illusions.
It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
If you could not make the best of both worlds, you could not be a politician!
I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind.
Every generation had its weaklings – that that was one of the penalties of greatness – but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.
Dyspepsia is responsible for many a reputation for romantic melancholy or ungovernable rages
Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.