England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Friendship is but a name. I love no one.
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.