The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. - Henry Taylor

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight…

The craving for office with which statesmen are so often reproached is, perhaps, in the more active of them, quite as much a craving for business as for emolument or power; and their unseasonable love of business grows out of their forfeiture of the love of leisure. Rarely as well as fortunately endowed by nature is that man who can love one or the other according to his occasions.

For no syren did ever so charm the ear of the listener, as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the syren.