A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.