The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

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.

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

Rank is a great beautifier.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.