There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.