Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.