The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.