Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!