It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

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