It is with a good book as it is with good company.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.