We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.