The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery
In a mans letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. – Samuel Johnson