The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.