Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!