Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

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

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.