If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

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

When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

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

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.