"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beaut..." — Benjamin Disraeli

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Adventures are to the adventurous.