One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.