Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

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

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.