The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.