“Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.”

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

He who gives early gives twice.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

It is good to live and learn.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.

I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.