There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.