The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

Perseverance is king.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.