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.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.