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

...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

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.

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

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