Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.