Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.