Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.