Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.
Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.
Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.