Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

What's money without happiness?

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.