In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

Business first, then pleasure.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

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

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.