Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.