Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.