Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.