It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.