Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.