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

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

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.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.