Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

Taste is the common sense of genius.