Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Now comes the mystery.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.