I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

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.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.