The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

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

The fearful are the failing.