The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.