Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.