Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

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