Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

• Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
• It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
• Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
• Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
• Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
• The best of seers is he who guesses well.
• To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
• No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
• Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.