Read to live, not live to read.

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.

Rank is a great beautifier.

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.