The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.