Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.