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

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.