Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.