The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.