Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

The Germans, a race eager for war.