If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

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.

Women love energy and grand results.

A prudent consideration for Number One.