Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.