The classic literature is always modern.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

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.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Genius has no brother.

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

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.