I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

The world we live in is but thickened light.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.