The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

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

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

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

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.