A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

Our distrust is very expensive.