Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.