Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.