Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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

Life is to short to be small.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

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

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous