In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make m…

In politics, as in religion, it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a tho…