The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.