Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

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

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

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

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.