I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.