Circumstances are beyond human control but our conduct is in our own power.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
There is no gambling like politics.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Finality is not the language of politics.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not...
In politics nothing is contemptible.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes but in peace are only...
Nature like man sometimes weeps from gladness.
Never complain and never explain.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.