Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.