My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.