Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.