When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.