A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.