I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.