It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.
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.