He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Well, dinner would have been splendid!
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
