"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"

"To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom."

"The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife."

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."

"If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive."

"October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."

"The world wants to be deceived."

"Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day."

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."

"Custom is the great guide of human life."

"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains."