Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
London is a modern Babylon.
If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
There is no education like adversity.