One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

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

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.