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.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

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

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.