What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.