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

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.