Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

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

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.