Women love energy and grand results.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

The classic literature is always modern.

Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.