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

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.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

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.

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

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots