When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

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

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.