If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

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.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

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.

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