We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.