Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.