People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

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.

Women love energy and grand results.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.