True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

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.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.