Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.