When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.