Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

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

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.