An obedient wife commands her husband..

Everything in this world depends upon will..

A precedent embalms a principle..

There is moderation even in excess..

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me..

In politics experiments means revolutions..

A man's fate is his own temper..

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity..

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete..

Change is constant in a progressive country..

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity..

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe..

The essence of education is the education of the body..

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense..

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dar….

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation..

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions..

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are..

Success is the child of audacity..

Genius, when young, is divine..

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead..