Finality is not the language of politics.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."