Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.