I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.