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.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.