When all else is lost, the future still remains.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

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

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.

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

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Example has far more followers than reason.