The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.