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

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

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

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

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

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.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.