Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.