Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.