You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.