I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.