Despair is the conclusion of fools.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

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

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.