[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.