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

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

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

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.