You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?