Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.