As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Our distrust is very expensive.

People say law but they mean wealth.