The world is his who has money to go over it.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.
When the night is darkest, the stars come out.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.