The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.