Giving is the business of the rich.

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.