No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.