Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.