As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.