It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.