Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.