The wise man is seldom prudent.

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.