No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.
If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.
Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.