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 proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

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

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

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

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

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.