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

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.