If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.