Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.