If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.