» Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
» There is no wisdom like frankness.
» The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
» Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
» It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
» My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
» Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
» Amusement to an observing mind is study.
» When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
» What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.