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.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

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

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.