Change, change,--we all covet change.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.