You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.