Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.