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

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

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

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

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

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.