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

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

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

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.