Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
Money is economic power.
If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.