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

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

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

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

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