There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

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

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.