Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.