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

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.