What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

Time rolls his ceaseless course.