Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.