The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.