There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.