The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

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.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.