A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

The only thing some people do is get older.

One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy