The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.