It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. . . Why do family feuds go on and on?. . . the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.
If I knew then what I know now, I would still be dreaming BIG today.