Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.