Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse