He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.