Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.