A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.