When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

Philosophy is the art of living.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.