Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

Read to live, not live to read.

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.