Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.