About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.