To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.