The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.