We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.