Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

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

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.