A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth