It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.