The Statesman who falls is he who does much, and thus injures many.

The Statesman who stands the longest is he who does nothing and injures no one.

He soon knew that the work which he had taken in hand required all the art of a great conjuror.

He must be possessed of tricks so marvellous that not even they who sat nearest to him might know how they were performed.
For the executive or legislative business of the country he cared little.

The one should be left in the hands of men who liked work;--of the other there should be little, or, if possible, none.
But Parliament must be managed,--and his party.