It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

There is nothing so costly as bargains.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.