All my successes have been built on my failures.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.