When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.