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

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.