We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.