All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.