Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

War? War is an organized bore.