London is a modern Babylon.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.