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

Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.

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

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.