I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.