There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

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

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.