It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.