Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.