The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

A prudent consideration for Number One.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

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

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.