Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.