Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!