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

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.