Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them