The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.