What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

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

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

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

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.