There is no gambling like politics.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

Finality is not the language of politics.

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

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse