Donald Trump is the president. It's not a bad dream. It really happened. It's like being dumped by a lover and also being stuck in a nightmare.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

But on the whole it is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.

It is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.

Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.