As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

He is a self-made man very much in love with his creator.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Departures should be sudden.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

We cannot learn men from books.