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

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.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

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

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.