Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.