Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.