It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.