Without tact you can learn nothing.

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

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

London is a modern Babylon.