A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Actions lie louder than words.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.