Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

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.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.