The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.