Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

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

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.