Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.