If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.