Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.