People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.