Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.