As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.