There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.