Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind.

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over