Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
The luxury of one's own opinion.
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions -that was the error of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood.
