In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversatio...
I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
First health then wealth then pleasure and do not owe anything to anybody.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their co...