He who leaves the game wins it.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.