Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.