Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.