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.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

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

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.