The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.