Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.