Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

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

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.