Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.