The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.