"The less men think the more they talk."
- Charles Montesquieu
"What the orators want in depth they give you in length."
"Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty."
"I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself."
"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."
"Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk."