Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

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