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

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

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

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

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

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

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.