Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.