To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?