One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.