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?

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.