Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

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

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.