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.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, of a natural necessity, the most useful, the most welcome, and the most dear.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.