The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.