I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.