None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.