Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.