As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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

Change is constant in a progressive country.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.