Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Life is to short to be small.

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

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

We cannot learn men from books.