Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.