It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.