Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

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

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.