It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.