At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

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.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.