Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.
From Charles Caleb Colton
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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