The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.