To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.