No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.