Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.