Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.