Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.