Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.