Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.