When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.