I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.